The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
70 DEATH.
DECOYED IN THE
IF CHARITY.

DECOYED IN THE
IF CHARITY.
Why Persons Are Re-
and Why Bodies Arc
River - A Curious
Of the people who are re-
y" an old detective was
er at police headquarters.
hard question to answer.
country to escape their
rs are killed In dives about
irn after several years"
known cases where people
|g for twenty years, where
E married again, and they
surprise, much more than
Who at first mourned their
people disappear was ex-
several years ago in q case
came public. A young man
Ing for the clergy was stand
front Of Wallack's theater,
time when the performance
vhen a young girl, shivering
and shawl, which scarcely
'oulders, touched him on the
I'd him for Gods sake to give
ey, az her mother was starv-
Id no means by which to OBJ
her. The gentleman told the
bs against q rule he had made
money to people on the street.
xed at him with a pitiful eI-
begged him, if he did not be-
", to come to the house where
lich was not far away, and see
h the story she had told him OF
bn and want Of her family was
oUCHED WITH PITY.
by the girls pathetic look tho
decided to follow her. She took
the corner Of Thirteenth street,
Avenue A, to . house with no
he windows, with shutters tum-
their fastenings, and with a bat
L door. She took him up one
airs to q room which was utterly
rniture except one broken down
stood in a corner. On a mantel
tered q tallow candle, which only
enough to show the deep dark
De corners.
bid him she would 90 into the next
id tell her mother that a kind
had come to see her. While she
Ig she asked him to sit on the bed,
Is the only seat she had to offer
~ man, Mortified at such poverty,
,r thinking Of any evil results to
seated himself on the edge Of the
arcely had he done 80 when two
ched out from under it and seiEed
the legs. With oil bis force h.
keep himself from being draSGea
He threw himself back and at
to grasp the edge Of the bod, but II
ion in which he was he could do
Slowly but surely he felt himself
downward by the powerful arms
is hand slipped from ono hold in the
70 other they happened to touch the
alking stick which he carried. A*
,ort he seized the cane and with al
9Th thrust it under the bed. Tbo
ON ferule with which the end OF The
loaded, came in contact with some
t. A horrible curse filed the room.
esperate energy the young man
d again thrust the cane into the
under tho bed. Slowly the wise
, of the hands which held his legs
He made one final and desperate
d found himself free. He rushe<.
irs and from the house.
LAUGHED AT HIN.
q he reached the corner, he thought
heveled and hatless as no WAS, j.
ossble for him to go home. Seeing
man on the next block, he went to
told him Of the experience be had
he OIL ,cr laughed at him and insin-
at he had better 60 home and take
more to drink. But when he
he young man was really in ear
called for help and at once returned
ouse which the young man pointei
the one in which he had been as
When they knocked at the doc'
pened by a man who had every ap-
8 of Just having been awakened
sound sleep. The young man in-
n going upstairs, and followed by
% he rushed up and into the room
le had lately left. In it there we'
that he could recognize or identify
IT covered the floor, pictures wet
on the walls, piano stood in OF
and everything looked as If it n
Gently occupied by woman of
stes. The young man was astoun1
.hange and tried to explain that
We got into the wrong house.
eturned to their original theory
ng man had been drinking and al
him to go home.
re- is no question In my mind Ii
young. man had not been succS Sul
ding away from the grip Of th3hn
d him from under the bed, al her
n body with nothing to ideIE il
ave been found floating in tho Jer,
,uld have been buried in 4er's
unknown and oneared forl hIe
one of the mysterious di4,ear
yhich so often thrill the Nd Yorl
would have had IFS nine IL run
Ter and then have been forgd1. y
,rk Mail and Express.
The Difference in Men.
, Hoffman house the otheIay two
,re pointed out who ca4,o New
Or the disposal Of similar operties
ten miles Of each othe4 Homo of
lday is a millionaire, viii kle other
Ny able to keep his fee ell shod.